Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every 100 U. S. citizens is in college or university this fall. Never before in any nation on earth have so many (1,250,000) students and pseudo-students tried to climb the peaks of education. Big, bustling University of Minnesota in Minneapolis is sharing in the boom. Last week the small, silver-haired dean of its College of Science, Literature & the Arts, John Black Johnston, 68, prepared to retire, and as he did so lugubriously doomed one in every two of its students to drown in the sea of education...
...sleepy, War-fattened lethargy. In 1928 it was so grossly out of line that it actually built a sulphate mill in the spruce forests of Tacoma. Next year this white elephant was shut down at a loss of $2,060,000. Meanwhile Union lost money steadily in all the boom years. In 1929 it lost $750,000. In 1930, it sold less than a sixth of the 33,000,000,000 U. S. bags...
...heady as a new vintage. Manhattan is also proud of its nightspots, where the atmosphere, though equally shady, is not so crystal-pure. When Repeal put an end to Prohibition's frowzy summer, Manhattan's undercover nightclubs, legally uncorked at last, popped and fizzed into a boom-de-ay of business gaiety. When the egregious Billy Rose converted a theatre into his Casino de Paree, where hundreds instead of scores could wine, dine, dance and watch a show, he started something. The Casino de Paree died three years ago, but the French Casino, also a remodeled theatre...
Under the Ontario Conservatives and during the pre-boom years, the Hydro-Commission had made four major, long-term contracts with power companies in the Province of Quebec. Liberal "Mitch" roared his opinion that these were foul, false and stank. Ontario, he claimed, had contracted for more power than she could use and at too high prices. It would cost the Province some $400,000,000 over a period of the next 40 years to pay what she owed under these contracts-so in effect "Mitch" simply tore them up by having his Parliament pass the Power...
...four months the Stock Exchange was shut tight, timidly reopening only after informal "black-bourse" trading had reached such sizable volume that brokers grew envious. At first all business was on a cash basis, but to nearly everyone's surprise prices started to climb and the Wartime boom was on. Early last week Wall Street had occasion to recall those historic days, for a thundering war scare shook the New York Stock Exchange in the worst one-day break since...